I checked my blog and realized I have the full half thousand! Yaaay! Apparently, @webdevtrust was my 500th follower - ty mate!
Also, I've almost reached 1000 SP (and had some decent fiat payouts) in just 2.5 months, this is far more than I expected when joining steem!
Time for this:
Ok, I'm waiting till lunch...afternoon...uhm, I meant evening. Evening. Img source
But also, let's take the time to say:
Thank You!
To all the flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, "my food cures cancer"-, "AIDS is just a hoax"- and "all science is just corrupt"- people.
First, without you, I wouldn't have been angry enough to build this blog the way I did. Use the anger, I must. Strong, it is.
But second, you did something awesome! Your believes forced me to cross-check my own knowledge, to dig into scientific sources and to really read the primary scientific literature behind my opinions.
No, you did not change my opinion. But you fortified it, condensed it, and provided me with as many arguments as my brain can hold. I grew stronger the last months.
Thank you!
To my dear fellows
You know I love you. Keep up the good spirit, and let's continue to spread reason, applied logic, well-thought arguments and the occasional well-deserved rant battle. Cheers!
Congrats with the milestone, @sco! I'm glad those flat-earth believers, anti-vaccination people, and anti-science guys did lead to something good for once.
Success has nothing to do with luck.. ..jedenfalls, wenn ich deine Beiträge richtig verfolgt habe ;)
Wohoo! Did I win a swimming cap or something? ;)
haha, would you want one?
No thanks. I'm here for the content.
Well done mate!! Congratulations :D I wouldn't dare go into that rant battle with you though hahaha!!
Glückwunsch :D
Ich habe mir jetzt mal ein paar Posts von dir durchgelesen und bin beeindruckt von deiner Präzession.
Auch wenn ich manche "wissenschaftlich belegten Aussagen" bezweifle, möchte ich doch meine Anerkennung für deine intensiven Ausführungen und Argumente aussprechen. Zum großen Teil würde ich die auch unterschreiben. :D
Ich bin beeindruckt, das bedarf doch ziemlich viel Engergie und Passion! ;D
Da ich vorhabe hier auch noch mehr Artikel zu posten, werden wir uns sicher hin und wieder über den Weg laufen.
Bis dahin, Mo*
Danke!
Zweifel ist gut, und die Wissenschaft lebt auch davon, frühere Resultate immer wieder zu hinterfragen und zu überprüfen.
Es ist auch wichtig, zu wissen, dass es gerade im Gesundheitsbereich - und noch viel mehr, wenn es z.B. um Lebensmittelinhaltsstoffe geht - sehr große Qualitätsunterschiede von wissenschaftlichen Studien gibt. Ich hab das glaub ich in einem meiner ersten Posts mal behandelt... je nachdem wie eine Studie durchgeführt wurde, ist sie mehr oder weniger aussagekräftig - was man als Wissenschaftler weiß, was für Laien aber schwer zu unterscheiden ist. Und Wissenschaftsreporter in den meisten Medien sind leider Laien, das kommt erschwerend dazu.
Richtig. Denn wie hat schon der Buddha gesagt?
Glaubt nichts - hinterfragt alles!! ;D
Was den Gesundheitsbereich betrifft, bestätigt sich das ja auch durch ständig wechselnde Empfehlungen zur Prävention oder Heilung verschiedener Krankheiten. Alles entwickelt sich weiter.
Ich finde diese Themen auf jeden Fall sehr spannend und bereichernd. Ich freue mich auf mehr.
LG Mo*
Congratulations! I just did the same resume in my post after two weeks in steemit. So you give me hope! And yeah, "all the flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, "my food cures cancer"-, "AIDS is just a hoax"- and "all science is just corrupt"- people" are just idiots, but they wind me up too!
May the whales be with you!
Keep on boiling and steemin'!
Earning for learning - seems like a good trade to me ;)
Glad you joined this platform!
yeah, it's nice ;-)
Awesome work mate! Well done you deserve it! :)
Keep crushing that pseudoscience for us!!
Congrats for your progress, you are way ahead of me! I am sorry you have to go through that but it's a cross we all have to carry until we set up our own education means. The governments are not doing a good job on education :( and ignorance is winning for the moment.
I have also started to fight disinformation in my last article and I will try to touch other subjects as well.
As for education, I have been quiet but I have something cooking, I am trying to get the Romanian community up and running and found supporters to push education to the rural areas by using Steemit's promise of income to the hardworkers.
The future might just get better!
Herzlichen Glückwunsch auch von mir! Dann auf zum nächsten Meilenstein, die 1000er Marke wirst du auch noch locker knacken ;-)
ja, die pack ich auch noch, danke!
Ich gratuliere auch ganz herzlich zu diesem Meilenstein !!
Grüße
Michael
We definitely should encourage people to do their own research or just source checking when writing an article. Maybe by telling them at the start of every article, in order to show its importance.
Congrats on 500 followers! Keep steeming!
Congratulation for 500 follower. It can be your good content or writing skills.
Congratulations for your success - well earned!
I am especially grateful to have come across your blog, since I am very active in the peace movement, where I am quite often confronted with people who are anti vaccines, who doubt climate change and so forth which sometimes gives a bit of a hard time. Having your sound, rational and scientific perspective to counterbalance unscientific information and opinions is of great value to me. Thank you very much, that you are obviously putting quite a lot of work into your blog.
Thanks a lot for commenting.
I have high respect and sympathy for the peace movement, but personally, I feel quite a few of the people involved there are a pain in the ass, for exactly the reasons you describe. ;-)
I have no idea why engagement for peace and ignorance seem to go hand in hand so often - it's a pity! I think those people are damaging the whole movement, as it makes it easy for media and people in power to act as if it was only lunatics - if you know what I mean?
I've even more respect for you holding the peace&reason line!
You are welcome :-)
Thanx for the compliment, but to be honest it is not as bad as it seems ;-) There are a lot of great people in the movement who are precise thinkers and are well informed.
Why exactly there are many people in the movement that feel attracted to irrational and unscientific thinking is a mystery to me. A feeble attempt to explain this phenomenon could be, that believing in peace for some people serves as a replacement for religion and the need to connect with something larger than oneself. And as we know, religious believes and rational thinking do not have that much in common. Well, but as I said, that is pure guessing :-D
My belief in peace is not derived from any spiritual or whatever source, but the simple insight into the general law, that you should treat others in the way you want to be treated.
I totally know what you mean that ignorant people are harmful to the movement as a whole and whenever I can, I trie to bring in my perspectives and I've already had some good discussions.
Another thought on the whole issue, when it e.g. comes to being sceptical towards or even against vaccines might be explained as an undifferentiated overreaction to everything that comes from the field of big pharma companies. As we know from cases such as CONTERGARN, pharma companies do not like to be held liable for their products. So, a general suspicion towards those players is well justified.
Have you already published an article on vaccination and the criticism brought forward by anti-vaccination people? I have read through some of your blog entries already, but have not found something on this issue yet.
Have a great Sunday :-) Ah, and thx for the upvote - much appreciated!
ah yeah, suspicion is well justified - but imo, that's why these questions have to be assessed scientifically, not emotionally.
Yeah, I had a quite famous dispute with an anti-vaxxer that cumulated into these 3 posts:
https://steemit.com/health/@sco/investigating-the-truth-behind-steemtruth-s-truth-part-1-vaccines-do-not-stop-desease
https://steemit.com/health/@sco/investigating-the-truth-behind-steemtruth-s-truth-part-2-vaccines-increase-your-chances-of-catching-infectious-disease
https://steemit.com/vaccines/@sco/investigating-the-truth-behind-steemtruth-s-truth-part-3-vaccines-kill-children
His false claims made me angry enough to put a lot of effort into it^^
Thx for the three articles on anti-vaxxers - well done! I have read them all and I really like your cool and sarcastic style apart from the scientific precision :-D
Nevertheless, I have found some minor language mistakes in most of your articles, some "a"s where there should be "an"s, some minor spelling errors and some past tense where the present perfect would be more appropriate (I hope you don't mind me mentioning this here).
Since I have found all your articles really interesting and entertaining to read, I'd like to offer my service to proofread your articles prior to publication. Since I am a minor steemian I would regard this as a compensation for my small voting power. Just let me know if you are interested, I would be happy to work with you and support you with my skills.
All the best and kindest regards!
Thx a lot for that offer, but I fear I would find an external proof-reading step very tiresome...when I've finished a post, I want to post it^^
What would be great though is if you could read through a freshly posted post and tell me if you found errors. That way I can edit them before they are burned into the blockchain. Are you on discord? If yes I could tell you there when a new post is out.
Hahaha ^^ totally got your point there, I am just the same :-D
Sure, let's do it that way.
You can find me on discord under
WAMP#5190
Looking forward to your next post!